Los Angeles – A grenade that was Led in a service in the Sheriff department of the County of Los Angeles Determined last week and killed three detectivesBut a second pomegranate remains unacceptable, said sheriff on Friday.
Sheriff managers on the details of the explosives of the special law enforcement office believed that the two military -style grenades they seized in a Santa Monica storage unit on July 17 were inert, but one of them exploded the next day and killed the three men, officials said.
A federal survey determined that the second pomegranate remains unacceptable, said Sheriff Robert Luna. Investigators used radiographs and vehicles and lockers excavated in installing East Los Angeles, as well as the DALM site and the scope of the installations, since the explosion, he said.
“We have examined everything we have been able to,” said Luna. He said the investigation of how the explosion had occurred was underway.
“Right now, there is a second pomegranate, that we are not 100% sure where it is,” said Luna.
The explosion occurred around 7:30 am on July 18 at the training center of the Sheriff Biscailuz department.
Detectives Joshua Kelley-Eklund, Victor Lemus and William Osborn, who were all in the details of the fire explosives at the Office of the Special Office.
The day before the explosion, the detail was called to help the Santa Monica police after two grenades were found in a tenant storage unit in the underground car park of a building, said Luna.
The explosives’ detectives “struck off the aircraft and believed that they were both inert,” said Luna. The devices were taken to the installation to be destroyed and made sure, he said.
Officials do not believe that the second pomegranate was lost on the way of Santa Monica at the training center, said Luna.
“We believe with confidence that it did not happen,” he said. Santa Monica is approximately 20 kilometers from East Los Angeles.
But if someone sees what seems to be a grenade, an explosive device or even an unknown object, it is warned not to touch it and call 911.
The federal office of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives will investigate the fate of the second device, said Luna. ATF also sent its national response team to Los Angeles.
“I can tell you with clarity of our post-explosion examination that we know that an apparatus has exploded,” said Kenny Cooper, a special agent of the ATF Los Angeles division. “And we did not recover any evidence from a second device on this scene.”
Cooper said investigators, including using dogs, drones and cherry pickers, explosives to look in trees, “meticulously examined the radius of more than 400 feet from the explosion seat, several times”.
“During the abundance of prudence, we searched a much larger breath than the results of this explosive device,” said Cooper.
There have been changes in the way the sheriff department manages explosives, including the treatment of all devices, even those that are inert, like Live, said Luna.
Luna said he had called for an in -depth policy of the examination department after action. “We are going to upset this. We are going to look at everything.” Said Luna.
“We owe it to families,” he said. “And for the love of God, I never want it again to happen again.”
